hi everyone, kind of in a tough situation here...
last night i came home and found 3 of my fish dead, i think they were all severely stressed due to aggression issues in the tank
there is still 5 fish in the tank left and i want to save them
immediately when i saw that 3 fish were dead i took them out and did a 50% PWC... during the water change the fish slowly went from gasping for breathe to swimming normally... im not sure if the ammonia or nitrates was the cause but at the time i took a reading and it was .5 ammonia, 40-80 nitrates...
this is a 125 gallon tank
after i did the PWC i thought everything would be fine because they were swimming normally again, none of them were going to the top and gasping for air but rather swimming around and opening/closing there mouth abnormally...
so this morning when i woke up again they were doing the same behavior with opening and closing their mouth, i took another reading and i had 0 ammonnia, 0 nitrites, and 20-40 nitrates.... at this point i wondered if it was due to the surface agitation not being enough with the current...
i did a 25% PWC just in case... as i did the PWC this time again they started to "relax" more and not show signs of gasping for breath... im not sure if its the water quality or maybe they got some kind of poisoning... i never had problems until i noticed now...
just to be safe i cleaned out the filter (eheim 2260)
currently they are showing normal behaviors and swimming around ok, none are constantly opening and closing their mouth... but i just dont want problems to arise...
does anyone have any idea what this is? i angled the spray bar more upwards to create more of a current on top since i had it angled downwards so that i wouldnt hear it as much...
any advice is greatly appreciated
last night i came home and found 3 of my fish dead, i think they were all severely stressed due to aggression issues in the tank
there is still 5 fish in the tank left and i want to save them
immediately when i saw that 3 fish were dead i took them out and did a 50% PWC... during the water change the fish slowly went from gasping for breathe to swimming normally... im not sure if the ammonia or nitrates was the cause but at the time i took a reading and it was .5 ammonia, 40-80 nitrates...
this is a 125 gallon tank
after i did the PWC i thought everything would be fine because they were swimming normally again, none of them were going to the top and gasping for air but rather swimming around and opening/closing there mouth abnormally...
so this morning when i woke up again they were doing the same behavior with opening and closing their mouth, i took another reading and i had 0 ammonnia, 0 nitrites, and 20-40 nitrates.... at this point i wondered if it was due to the surface agitation not being enough with the current...
i did a 25% PWC just in case... as i did the PWC this time again they started to "relax" more and not show signs of gasping for breath... im not sure if its the water quality or maybe they got some kind of poisoning... i never had problems until i noticed now...
just to be safe i cleaned out the filter (eheim 2260)
currently they are showing normal behaviors and swimming around ok, none are constantly opening and closing their mouth... but i just dont want problems to arise...
does anyone have any idea what this is? i angled the spray bar more upwards to create more of a current on top since i had it angled downwards so that i wouldnt hear it as much...
any advice is greatly appreciated